Story of a Lifetime
When Michael Pointer was asked to write the story of the Zeller brothers for Evansville Living (“Three-Point Play”), the sports writer was thrilled. “To say it’s a unique story might be the understatement of all sports understatements,” he says. “Unprecedented is a better word. Steve and Lorri Zeller had a better chance of winning Powerball than pulling this off.” Longtime Sports Illustrated writer Gary Smith is familiar with writing about gifted athletes, from Mike Tyson’s rags-to-riches tale to the frontline loss of Pat Tillman. Here’s a link to the latter, one of Smith’s literary masterpieces.